Wednesday, April 30, 2014

You
want me to write a response about how ashamed I am that an 81-year old
billionaire tosses out racist comments like a neo-Nazi?

Don’t
get your hopes up.

For
full effect, download “I Am So Sad, So Very, Very, Sad” by Crash and the Boys,
and play at maximum volume throughout the duration of this post.

You
want me to write a blogpost slamming an egotistical bigot who still lives in a
time where there were two different types of water fountains in public? You
want me to take a stance on a prick no one even heard of until TMZ blasted his
reputation all over social media this past weekend, a man that the majority of
us when asked about this event replied with “Donald Who?” You want me to rip
his reputation to shreds and stand united with a world that does not stand for
any type of racial discrimination whatsoever, I mean, because that’s what is
trending right now, isn’t it?

Don’t get me wrong, the guy’s an insensitive jackass. For saying the cruel
words he did about people who aren’t the same skin color, that is a terribly
shameful act indeed. But do you want me to get all hot and bothered and throw a
social media tissy fit ranting about the state of the American people and toss
out hashtags left and right slamming his character and toting how this man
should be burned at the stake? I mean, is that something you think should be a
priority in every single one of our lives?

Because
if you don’t think it is, well you’re as bad as the leader of the KKK, you
racially insensitive prick.

We
live in a world that makes catastrophes out of things that don’t really matter.
You have to admit that statement is true. As soon as those recordings were
leaked on to the web it became the biggest nightmare since Watergate and the
reputation for a human being was tarred and feathered like an upstart Mormon.
Heck, this man was banned for life from an organization that he helps fund in
the first place all because he made a few inappropriate comments to a girl he
thought he trusted, comments that he made in his own living room of all places.
Not at a podium, not in a press release, not broadcast in an on-air interview,
he said these words while sitting on his couch in a pair of billion-dollar
sweatpants tipping back his Metamucil. But nevertheless, he said them, and he
should be banned for life!

Does
anyone else feel this situation makes absolutely no sense whatsoever? Have
their not been worse atrocities committed in the history of sports that have
yielded lighter punishments? Remember when Ron Artest ran up into the stands in
Detroit and beat the lights out of a handful of fans because they threw beer on
him? He literally knocked people unconscious in a flat-out brawl. And then
there was Brett Favre sending voicemails and taking pictures of his manhood and
sending them to New York Jets reporter Jenn Sterger in an attempt to have an
affair. Or what about how one of Boxing’s biggest promoters, Don King, was
convicted of murder? TWICE! This frizzy-haired nutcase killed two different
people and he is praised inside the ring!

And
yet the world we live in blows up when an 81-year old blowhard makes publically
incorrect statements inside his own living room.

You
would think we would look at the bigger picture, turn the other cheek and
become better people, because we as a society have advanced haven’t we? We are
better than that, are we not? We target bigger issues at hand such as solving
world hunger, discovering cures for cancer, and ending violence in the Middle
East.

HA!
Are you kidding? We all want to jump on the bandwagon. We all want those 15
seconds of glorified social media fame. We praise the Miami Heat for turning
their jerseys inside out to support a mild protest despite the fact that they
don’t even play for the Los Angeles Clippers whatsoever. We listen to after
game press conferences where the main topic of discussion is not the lack of
defense or poor field goal percentage, but rather, how emotionally jarred the
players felt when they walked on the court. We write blogposts about issues
that six months from now won’t have a single ounce of value whatsoever.

You
want to end racial discrimination in today’s society? You want moral and
ethical values to be raised and faith in humanity to be restored once again?You want the world we live in to become a
better place for our posterity to survive?

Good
luck. Because at the rate we’re trending, that’s never going to happen.